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Crime, Courts, Calamity

Bad things happen to good people; good things happen to bad people.

Tourists Awed By Frosts At Nation's Highest Mountain

(16 December) Temperature continues to plunge around Doi Inthanont National Park in Chiang Mai province, with frost forming in many parts, attracting many tourists.

Bangkok Hairstylist Gives Free Haircuts to Health Frontliners

BANGKOK (AP) — Scrubs may be in fashion during the coronavirus crisis, but split ends — never. That’s where Pornsupa Hattayong comes in.
Tourists wait for a ferry on Koh Chang.

Tourists Trickling Back to Thailand’s Empty Beaches

TRAT — With the threat of coronavirus declining each day, tourists are now making way back to Thailand’s beaches and islands.

Police Rule Out Foul Play in Frenchman’s Fatal Fall



CHIANG MAI — Murder has been eliminated by police as a factor in the case of a French national who fell from a balcony and died in Chiang Mai province last night.
Headquarters of the 3rd Cavalry Division in Khon Kaen province. Photo: 3rd Cavalry Division / Facebook

HIV+ Army Sgt. May Have Raped Hundreds: Police

KHON KAEN — Hundreds of boys may have been victimized by an HIV-infected soldier now under arrest in Khon Kaen province, according to a police colonel investigating the case.

Rocker Sek Loso Sentenced to Jail

NAKHON SI THAMMARAT — A court in southern Thailand on Thursday sentenced a famed rock musician to five days in prison for firing a handgun in a temple late last year.

Nightclub Shootout Kills 1 Police Officer

(13 October) A police officer had been fatally injured as he responded to the shootout in a popular nightclub in Samut Sakorn province, while a suspect was also shot and killed by the police.

Thailand Charges More Activists With Sedition, Royal Insults

BANGKOK (AP) — Prosecutors in Thailand charged 18 pro-democracy activists with sedition on Monday, while lodging additional charges of insulting the monarchy against three of them.

Dhammakaya to Sue Trasher for Party ‘Blasphemy’



BANGKOK — A pop music event organizer apologized for lampooning the controversial Buddhist sect Dhammakaya at a party Saturday night following threats of legal action by the group.

Sup With Sek Loso’s Five-Day Facebook Live Meltdown?

BANGKOK — The glazed eyes and unshaven beard leap from the tiny screen as one of the nation’s top rockers speaks nostalgically of small...

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